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Comment by Goz3rr

7 years ago

>where an ICE has a pretty fixed resistance.

That's what the gearbox is for

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arghwhat  7 years ago

Apart from inertia on initial clutch-in, there are diminishing returns from increasing the gear ratio when it comes to compression losses.

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